WHEN PUTSCH CAME TO SHOVE: It ended as suddenly as it began. For months, Yevgeny Prigozhin, leader of the Wagner mercenary army, had been railing against the generals in the Russian Defense Ministry, accusing them of incompetence and using his convict army as cannon fodder in Ukraine.

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